Dawlish News
A DISHONEST maintenance man put the safety of tenants in Dawlish at risk by carrying out illegal gas safety checks.
Adrian Hunt, 42, ran a property maintenance business, but carried out compulsory safety checks on rented domestic properties when he was not qualified to do so.
He has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to carry out community work for forging the details of a Gas Safe registered engineer and carrying out illegal gas safety checks.
Hunt, 42, carried out the annual safety checks on behalf of landlords and managing agents despite not being on the Gas Safe Register.
In a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Newton Abbot magistrates heard that Hunt’s services were used by a number of managing agents in South Devon.
He offered to organise the safety checks and often used a registered Gas Safe engineer, but on at least three occasions, at properties in Brook Street and Brookdale Terrace, Dawlish, he did the checks himself and filled out the gas safety record using the details of a real Gas Safe registered engineer. Mr Hunt failed to check the supply of combustion air after working on gas appliances.
The issue came to light when the registered gas engineer went to a property and saw his details had been filled out on the record with someone else’s handwriting.
